Childhood And Animals

If we are lucky, as children we grow, learning how the world works. We entrust others with our well-being and lives, share experiences, discover our power and powerlessness, and during that time our reality and imagination merge.

As an artist, I try to retain that duality, where abstract thoughts can become visible through marks or colour, different times share space, and ideas are transformed into something real.

In these paintings, I witness and paint childhood, explore vulnerability and the transient nature of relationships, trust and power.

Art - human & animal friendships. Painting of a sleeping pig - a boy and some moor hens, on the theme of kindness to animals.

Show respect to all living things.Oil on board. 2008. Archive.

Flora Day.Oil on board - 2011.
A painting of the children's dance on Flora Day. Helston, Cornwall.

A child asleep on the sofa with an angel hovering above her head.

The sick child.Oil on board. 10 x 8".

A tonally dark painting of a child lighting a church candle, behind her is a painted figure.

Remember you are loved.Oil on board - 2008.

A painting of a little girl dressed for marriage with an adult man, behind a seated female child holds a baby, a book and doll lay on the ground.

Across the world, millions of children are being forced to marry.From 100 Painted Vows.
Oil on board - February 2019.

Painting of a child and lamb catching angels, the cart is there to carry the catch home. The subject matter explores the nature of friendships in childhood, and what is real.

Catching angels.Oil on board - 2005.

painting of a boy who has won first prize for a vegetable animal the boy is sitting in the Devonshire House - A la Rhonde .

Know your worth.Oil on board - 2008.
The setting is inspired by the Devonshire House - A la Rhonde.

Art - human & animal friendships. Bold painting of a young girl in a dress with a horse sharing a moment together.

Girl & Horse.Oil on board - 2020.

painting of a child by the sea, pushing a pram with a doll and teddy passed a frightening scarecrow.

Child with a pram.Oil on board - 2012.

Painting of two children looking at a naked chicken that science invented to save time in the meat industry. Childhood innocence, science, morality, politics.

Children looking at a naked chicken. Oil on card - 2006.Oil on card - 2006.
Childhood innocence, science, morality, & politics.

Ex Votive painting about a small boy who nearly drowned three times, and who became a Fisherman.

Ex Votive. Dave nearly drowned three times.1950 -57. The river Trent. David Kirk nearly drowned in the river three times. Twice the Haines brothers pulled him out. When he grew up, he became a Fisherman. Oil on board. Part of the series - One Hundred Painted Vows.